Just Fucking Use IPv6

IPv6 is the future of the Internet. It is over 30 years old at this point and much of the world still doesn't have it. This is because work has been done to make it invisible to the end user. This means that users don't notice that they are missing anything and don't complain so ISPs and content providers don't implement it. Here are a few of it's benefits to make you complain to your ISP, or, if you are said ISP, deploy it to your network.

Cost

IPv6 addresses are way cheaper than IPv4. This is because there are so many IPs (approximately 340 undecillion). This reduces the cost of running the network and your ISP can pass these savings to you.

No NAT

This is a benefit mostly for power users but it shouldn't be, as the Internet should be more decentralized and more people should self host. NAT is not a solution, it is a band-aid. If you don't know what NAT is, it stands for Network Address Translation. It is one of the tasks your router does. Your Local Network has a private IP range that only the devices in it can access. To get to the internet, your data goes to your router normally but they get rewritten, changing the IP to the router's. This reduces performance and makes self hosting more difficult. People often consider it to increase security but that is why firewalls are for.

No CG-NAT

This is the worse version of NAT. It is NAT performed at your ISP. This makes self hosting impossible. This also reduces performance a lot because all traffic passes through a single router at the ISP. It also makes people hit rate limits and captcha tests as many people access a service from a single IP. Lastly, it makes Peer to Peer applications like torrenting, calls and gaming worse or impossible. Better Privacy Since there are so many IP addresses, your devices can use a different address for each connection, increasing your privacy.

These are only a few of IPv6's many features. Some are only important to more tech-savvy users. However, it is still important even for the average user. The only reason most people don't care about IPv6 is because we still use dual stack connection so people don't miss anything. The thing is that if people don't miss anything, they don't complain and ISPs don't care to implement it. Deploying and using IPv6 will lead to a better, more free and more decentralized internet. So just fuckiny use IPv6!